What to expect
Orson Welles turns post-war pursuit into a study of how evil can hide inside civic respectability, using clocks, architecture, and social trust as suspense mechanisms.
How to ease in
The audience learns the central danger early. Watch the investigator assemble proof while the town’s normal routines make belief more difficult.
Heads-up
A war-crimes investigator follows a Nazi fugitive into an apparently ordinary American town where a respected schoolteacher has built a new identity.
A disguise is strongest when a whole community helps maintain it without knowing. I watch respectability operate like a second identity document.
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A disguise is strongest when a whole community helps maintain it without knowing. I watch respectability operate like a second identity document.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Screenplay
- Anthony Veiller · Victor Trivas · Decla Dunning
- Production
- Sam Spiegel · International Pictures, Inc.
- Cinematography
- Russell Metty
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